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The water cuts suggested by California, Arizona and Nevada are not as ambitious as those proposed by the federal government, but they will buy time

The Department of the Interior today announced significant new developments in the Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to protect the...

A spot count of homeless in the state, commissioned by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, identified about 3,850 homeless people. That's 48% more than a year earlier.

Washington DC (UPI) May 22, 2023 - The three states that make up the Colorado River Basin reached a historic new conservation deal to preserve the future of the river system, the U.S. Department of the Interior confirmed Monday.

Seven Colorado River Basin states have agreed to take billions fewer gallons of water from the dwindling river.

California, Arizona, and Nevada have come together in a plan to protect the Colorado River Basin and reduce their ...

The river's woes in recent years have forced the federal government to offer billions of dollars for farmers and cities to cut back on water.

The governors of Arizona, California, and Nevada announced a plan to conserve 3 million acre-feet of water on the Lower Colorado River.

Arizona, California and Nevada will reduce intake by 3 million acre-feet (3.7 billion cubic meters) through the end of 2026, an amount equal to 13% of their river allotment, under a deal brokered and announced by the Biden administration. Those three make up the Lower Basin states of the century-old Colorado River Compact, which assigns water rights to them plus the four Upper Basin states of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.

The plan would conserve an additional 3 million acre-feet of water through 2026, when current guidelines for how the river is shared expire. About half the cuts would come by the end of 2024